Many Dot Names Break The Rules
from the yeah,-so? dept
This should be surprising to no one (except for those at ICANN, of course), but it seems that many people (gasp!) registered .name domains that weren’t their own names. Oh, the horror. In fact, some people (apparently only 2) registered the names of famous people! How dare they! Also, people broke some other “rules” for registering a .name. Officially, you were only supposed to register domains that read firstname.lastname.name. However, many people apparently went for lastname.family.name, so they could have a domain for the whole family (not a bad idea, actually). The guy who did the study seems very concerned about these crazy rule breakers. Update: In an amazing display of shortsightedness, this article that appeared this morning on Newsbytes has now vanished. I knew that the Washington Post was combining their various tech sites into one, but I figured they’d at least leave up the old stories for a day. Instead, the link now takes you to the front of their new incredibly badly designed tech news site, and the .name article is nowhere to be found. Update again: Here’s another site that has reprinted the Newsbytes article.
Comments on “Many Dot Names Break The Rules”
Not surprising!
I remember when we were getting ready to launch dot name (the company I use to work for was Namplanet/GNR) the head of the .name project was incredibly (probably too much) worried about potential copyright infringement. It surprises me that he didn’t freak out that a whole two people managed to do it, ha!